Being twenty in Iran, 1999
It’s through the eyes of a woman-photographer-child of this country that I ask myself : what will the future be like ? I know little of its past. I am just beginning to know its present. The history of this millenary civilisation, splashed with the colours of Persian splendours has, over the last decades, become first a dark symbol of the revolution, then of war and economic crisis and finally world isolation. Today, however, a renewed interest from the west, for this country that lies just this side of the orient, is being born.
To hazard a guess at what tomorrow may bring, I rest my gaze on the future actors in Iranian society. A new generation has just been born, it is unlike any of the ones preceding in Iran, it is unique. Born from the revolution, out of popular religious momentum, it has a new, and entirely different style. These young citizens of the Islamic republic are everyday increasing in numbers, and very attached to its own country, living or not the “Iranian dream” ?
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